Lying. Sleeping. Antagonizing. Talking on the phone. Talking and talking — and not listening. Asking illegal questions. Interviewers have a lot to learn. Throughout my 30-year career in higher education, I've had my share of interviews. I've also witnessed open fora...

This publication offers descriptions of ten strategies chosen for their potential to respond to diverse student needs in second language classrooms. Each strategy is described by way of a definition, a suggested target audience, a depiction of when and how it might be used,...

New findings by researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) at the University of Washington demonstrate for the first time that an early social behavior called gaze shifting is linked to infants' ability...

When we conduct a class and speak to a group of learners we want to inform them of something or, persuade or entertain them. To achieve any or all of these objectives, we should know their interests, likes and dislikes; otherwise our attempts and efforts tend to be futile....

A second language specialist is breathing life into the Cree language this summer by teaching at a camp in the bush at Little Pine First Nation.
For the past decade, Belinda Daniels has organized a language camp in her home community...

After over 20 hours of travelling, 53 Japanese high school students poured into Walkerville Collegiate to meet with their Windsor host families.
There were shouts, laughter and lots of hugs as the Windsor families met with their...

For Dawnis Kennedy, learning to speak Ojibwe is about so much more than just learning a language.
"I want to be who I was born to be," said 38-year-old Kennedy, who is of Ojibwe decent.
"And without the language how do I understand that and see that?"

Hannah Sorbilli wants to chat with her grandparents in Italian.
The eight-year-old Oshawa girl says learning a new language "is a bit hard," but worth it to be able to talk to her nonno and nonna in their native tongue.